Hezbollah had told Lebanese authorities it was accepting a ceasefire with Israel on the day its leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli strike, a government source told AFP today. Until then, the powerful Shiite group had made an end to hostilities in Lebanon conditional on an end to fighting in Gaza between the Israeli army and Palestinian Hamas. Hezbollah opened the southern Lebanon front against Israel a year ago, to support Hamas. “On September 27, Hezbollah formally informed the Lebanese government, through Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, that it accepted the international ceasefire initiative,” said this source, who asked not to be named. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati was that day at the UN, where an international proposal for a 21-day ceasefire, initiated by France and the US, was under discussion. Mikati informed them […]
Source: News Beast
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